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Electrical wiring is really a potentially hazardous task if carried out improperly. One need to never attempt functioning on electrical cabling without knowing the below tips and tricks followed by even the many experienced electrician.
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To properly read a wiring diagram, one has to know how the components within the method operate. For example , when a module is powered up and it sends out a signal of half the voltage in addition to the technician would not know this, he'd think he offers a problem, as this individual would expect a 12V signal. Next diagrams is reasonably simple, but applying it in the scope of how the device operates is the different matter. Our best advice is not only look in the diagram, nevertheless understand how the components operate when within use.
Before reading a new schematic, get familiar and understand each of the symbols. Read the particular schematic like a roadmap. I printing the schematic plus highlight the signal I'm diagnosing to be able to make sure Im staying on right path.
Best tricks and techniques in home cabling
For DIY electricians, there's a lot of jumbled up information of what you ought to or shouldn't do. Electricity is very dangerous and can easily lead to electrocution, so you need to call an emergency electrical contractor for sensitive cabling cases. However, you may work on minor electrical wiring in your home provided you follow safety measures. To make you better at wiring, here are some reliable tips and techniques you need to perfect. You will be in a far greater position to safeguard yourself and work better.
Have an RCD
An RCD (residual current device) is one of the main things to have in your circuits. It is positioned on socket outlets or fuse boxes to prevent electric shock in the situation of a DIY blunder. RCDs are devices that are widely-used to monitor the flow of current through a particular circuit, and they cut off the existing whenever it flows through an unintentional path. So if you accidentally touch a live line, the RCD would identify the unusual flow of the current and immediately switch off the circuit. This keeps both your family safe.
Use proper tools
Having the right tools at hand is another important aspect of electric work. For instance, avoid knives as opposed to stripshow when stripping your wires. Knives may weaken the wire by notching the copper inside.
Choose linesman pliers as opposed to the ordinary slip-joint giant pliers when intending to twist wires. The ordinary pliers would give you a loose connection that may cause trouble in future. Likewise, ensure you've obtained a tester to test the volts of the wire connections before and after working on them.
Watch your airport terminal contacts
Terminal cable connections would be the conclusion details of wires, where a connection with a circuit occurs. These are some of the most typical connections, particularly if you're dealing with receptacles and buttons. Terminal connections go through a lot of stress, and poor joints easily loosen up.
So here's the trick. When wrapping a wire around the terminal screw, do it in a clockwise direction. Of which way, the screw tightens the link as it goes in. Also ensure that all the wire that's twisted around the mess is stripped. Inside case there are a terminal slot, you need to be extra careful. Strip the wire perfect such that no insulation goes underneath the slot, and no bare wire is left. Any faults here could cause the wire to the touch the ground wire or box.


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Kent Bush: Easy to take technology for granted
Earlier this month President Barack Obama set a record that if I become commander in chief will never be broached. He spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin for more than 90 minutes about the invasion of the Crimean region of the Ukraine.
If I talk on the phone for 90 minutes in a week, it is a bad week.
That call made me wonder whether Obama took the call on his trusted BlackBerry or if he was tethered to an office phone. (Yes I consider being caught on the phone to be on par with being held captive.)
Obama was on his office phone. How miserable. That led me to think about other conversations that had been held over those phone lines in that very office.
And then it dawned on me; there wasn't always a phone in the White House. George Washington didn't take any calls in that office. Of course, that is primarily because there wasn't even a White House yet when Washington was chosen as the nation's first President. John Adams holds the honor of being the first President to call the White House home.
Millard Fillmore brought running water and a stove into the presidential residence but no electrical outlets were wired until Benjamin Harrison took office.
Harrison and his wife weren't keen on the new technology, however, and always feared being shocked by one of the light switches so they continued to use the traditional gas lights.
Despite being afraid of electricity, Harrison was the first President to bring a Christmas tree to the White House. Given his fear of electricity, I doubt it had the same flair as Clark W. Griswold's.
But peace and quiet ruled the Oval Office until Rutherford B. Hayes took office. That is when the first phone calls could be taken and placed in the Presidential offices. How nice would that have been to have an office with no phone?
Several presidents could have owned cellphones before now, but thanks to the Presidential Records Act of 1978 passed after Richard Nixon was unceremoniously removed from office, presidents have to record and preserve all of their official communications. That is why even emails are not a popular form of communication by our nation's chief executives. Bill Clinton rode a wave of popularity driven by an economy propped up by the first Internet bubble and only sent two emails during eight years in office.
I send more than two emails driving from one appointment to the next. And if my inbox is any indication, Obama sends more than two emails each day before lunch – usually asking me for $5 because it is Michelle's birthday or something.
But now, as long as he is careful to only communicate in private, unofficial conversations, Obama can talk and text on a super spy-proof mobile phone.
For some reason, if something is common now, it is easy to believe that it has always been common. But when you see how long it took to get basic technology like running water and electricity into our nation's presidential parsonage, you see how wrong those assumptions are.


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If you visit this site regularly, you may have noticed that posts often relate to news events or holidays, usually through a quote from or review of a related book. One of the most popular of these was last year's Ash Wednesday post ("What do the ashes on Ash Wednesday mean?"), based on Marc Foley's A Season of Rebirth: Daily Meditations for Lent (New City, $12.95, paperback) www.newcitypress.com, back in the Top Ten today. (It's beating that Marv Albert Super Bowl quote by the equivalent of a 56-0 postseason blowout.) I couldn't find a similar book this year, so here instead is a link to Hymn Site's readings from the Revised Common Lectionary for Ash Wednesday www.hymnsite.com/lection/index.shtml. Click on the "Calendar" page on that site and then on "Ash Wednesday" to get the readings (which you can read or listen to).
One of Hymn Site's suggested hymns for today is Charles Wesley's great "Ye Servants of God," inspired partly by the persecution of English Methodists in the 18th century. I can't link directly to that hymn on Hymn Site, so here's a direct link to the version on Cyber Hymnal www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/y/s/yservofg.htm. You'll hear music as soon as you click on that link. You can find other suggested hymns by searching for "Lent" on Cyber Hymnal.
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Google has posted the schedule for Google I/O, the company's annual product launch extravaganza held in San Francisco. While Google tries to keep things secret, many of the session names and descriptions end up being revealing anyway. Here's a list of the things that jumped out at us.
(The keynote this year is only two hours long! How will they fit everything in?)
Design, design, design
As promised, there is a huge focus on design this year, with 11 sessions dedicated to how things look and function. It looks like Google's grand unification across products is a go, too, with sessions titled "Cross-Platform Design," "Cross-Platform Interaction Design," "Cross-Platform Visual Design and Imagery," and "Cross-Platform Motion Design"—there will clearly be a lot of cross-platform designing going on. The "Cross-Platform Design" session looks to be the big one, with the design leads of Android (Matias Duarte) and Google Search & Maps (Jon Wiley) in attendance.
Google Minus
Conspicuously missing from the Google I/O schedule is any mention of Google+, which backs up the earlier reports that the company will be distancing itself from the Google+ branding. Google+ accounts appear to now be referred to as "Google Identity," which is referenced in the session "Grow your app with Google identity." It mentions things like "cross-device single sign-on," a feature of the Google+ platform, but it never mentions the social network by name. The speaker, Jennifer Lin, lists herself on LinkedIn as working on the "Google+ Platform," but the session description says she now works for the "Google Identity Platform."
For comparison, last year's schedule mentioned Google+ 20 times. This year? Zero.
New camera tricks?
"Building great multi-media experiences on Android" might sound like a snoozer in terms of news, but it's the description that really stands out to us. It promises to "look at what's new in the Android camera API." About a year ago, Google accidentally pushed a work-in-progress camera API revamp to the Android Open Source Project. It supported things like camera RAW, burst mode, and removable cameras. While that leak was over a year ago and things have undoubtedly changed since then, the Android camera situation has clearly been a focus for the Android team lately, and it looks like we'll finally see the fruits of that labor at I/O.
Google finally unveils the ART runtime
When Google comes up with something new in Android, the company usually comes out and explains it. There are typically blog posts, YouTube videos, and documentation on the Android site. That has not been the case for ART, or "Android RunTime," which was quietly shipped as a developer option in KitKat. The only official word on the subject has been this tiny acknowledgement in the Android docs, which says that ART is an experimental replacement for Dalvik.
Dalvik is the virtual machine that runs Android apps. When you see Android apps running on other platforms like BlackBerry OS, Linux, or Windows, those products are really implementing Dalvik—it's the engine that Android apps run on. Dalvik was originally built to be small—not fast or battery efficient—so that it would fit on the modest phone storage of several years ago.
Despite this seemingly being a major change to the way Android works—and something that will greatly affect apps—Google hasn't said a word about it.
That looks set to change at I/O, though. There's a session called "The ART Runtime," where it sounds like Google will finally come clean about what it has been building and just what its goals are for the project. The session description says, "we'll focus on all of the improvements we've been making to the Android runtime," so it sounds like we'll be seeing a new version of ART at the show, besides the version that ships with KitKat. We're pretty sure ART can't be updated though the Play Store (wouldn't that be wild if it could?), so if developers are meant to play with this, a new version of Android would be needed!
We would like to have a word with the person who named this session, though—just like people who say "PIN number," "ART Runtime" comes out to "Android RunTime Runtime."
Android Wear versus Google Glass
"Wearable Computing With Google," "Designing for wearables, and "Android Wear: The Developer's Perspective," all scream that, yes, Android Wear will be launching at I/O. With all this focus on Android Wear, many people have started to wonder what will happen to that other Google wearable, Google Glass, but a few of these sessions mention that they are joint Android Wear/Google Glass meetings. It's hard to shake the feeling that the Google Glass software could be replaced by Android Wear, but the Android Wear and Google Glass people will be on stage together saying, "No really, we have two wearable platforms—honest."
A surprising lack of TV stuff
If anyone had asked us before this schedule came out about what we would expect to see at I/O, "Android TV" or a gaming console would have been a big part of our answer. We've seen screenshots of a revamped TV platform called "Android TV" and there have been numerous rumors from solid sources about Google launching a living room gaming device. We would imagine these two products would be the same thing—a single, unifying set-top box with Google stuff in it.
The I/O schedule doesn't mention television or the living room once, though. If Android TV were going to launch at the show, we would expect to see a few sessions about building apps for the living room. Android Wear is a great example. We aren't 100 percent certain it will launch at the show, but with a ton of sessions about wearables and making apps for Android Wear, it's a solid sign that it will. We don't see any of that for TV apps.
Google I/O kicks off June 25. We'll have boots on the ground to bring you the latest in Googley goodness in just 40 days.


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Which cards are no longer supported by ATI Catalyst? The ATI Radeon 9500-9800, Xpress200-1250, 690G, 740G, X300-X2500 (including Mobility RadeonHD 2300, since it is really a DirectX 9 part). See the complete list here. If your card is on that list, you are limited to open-source drivers on Debian Squeeze/6.0 (and later). If you really need the proprietary Catalyst/fglrx driver, you will have to use Debian Lenny/5.0.x and install Catalyst 9-3.
NOTE: If you enter your card information on AMD/ATI's driver page, it will offer you the Catalyst 9-3 driver to download. However, the Catalyst 9-3 driver doesn't support X servers past 1.5, and it will not work with Debian versions later than Lenny/5.0.x! !!!SO BE CAREFUL!!! If you tried to install Catalyst on a system with one of these cards, see the 'Removing the Driver' section to restore the default/pre-installed drivers.
Read Me Second :SLEEP mode in Debian/testing kernel 3.2.0
amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.10-x86.x86_64.run breaks sleeping mode(notebook hangs up after awaking and reboot without logging anything ). I suppose it is because atievetsd not working correctly. So i first install last fglrx-atieventsd packet and over it amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.10-x86.x86_64.run. ( Or first amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.10-x86.x86_64.run and then manualy copy rest conf files from fglrx-atieventsd without overwriting.) Then start atieventsd : "service fglrx-atieventsd restart" and put this command in autorun files.
Next step - check /var/syslog if there would be "atieventsd[3141]: Unable to bind control socket to /var/run/atieventsd.socket: Permission denied " - then it need be run by root.
After this sleeping mode become work correctly but only sometimes. Research is to be continued. Good news is that many 3d games are well playing with sound on wine-1.5.6.
UPDATE: It seems it works correctly. Clean install amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.10-x86.x86_64.run on Debian/testing kernel 3.2.0 i386. But after upgrading libxi6 to stable version (apt-get install -t stable libxi6). Old version have made problems with wine games , something like "malloc() corruption memory" and segfault. New version amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64.run and fglrx-driver_12-6+point-1_i386.deb i havenot test.
The open-source ati/radeon driver should already be installed and used as the default. See Debian Open Source Drivers. This guide focuses on installing the proprietary ATI driver (fglrx/Catalyst).
Before Starting
If you have previously attempted installing Catalyst, remove any leftover files by following the Removing the Driver section.
Installing from Debian Repository
NOTE: This no longer works on Wheezy/testing or Sid after upgrade to Xserver 1.12. Unfortunately fglrx/Catalyst trigger segfaults in Xorg newer than 1.11.x, and the driver was removed from Wheezy and Sid.
Fglrx is non-free software, so it is located in the non-free repository. If you do not have non-free enabled, you can do so like this: http://serverfault.com/questions/240920/how-do-i-enable-non-free-packages-on-debian
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-radeon $ sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver fglrx-control fglrx-glx fglrx-atieventsd fglrx-modules-dkms
If you are using 64-bit Debian, install the 32-bit fglrx libraries for use with 32-bit programs.
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-glx-ia32
The Debian community provides information on its wiki pages here and here.
Installing Manually
This can not work at all. please refer the Discussion for details....
This method uses the latest Catalyst driver downloaded from AMD/ATI's site.
Prerequisite Packages
Install the prerequisite packages (names are based on Debian sid, older Debians may be different):
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++6 dkms libqtgui4 wget execstack libelfg0 module-assistant dh-modaliases
If you are using the x86_64 architecture (64 bit), be sure to install "ia32-libs" before proceeding!
$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Download the latest Catalyst package.
This package contains both the 32-bit and 64-bit driver.
$ cd ~/; mkdir catalyst15.12; cd catalyst15.12/ $ wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-15-12-x86.x86_64.run $ chmod +x amd-driver-installer-15-12-x86.x86_64.run
Interestingly enough, as I test this (October 6, 2012), it seems that AMD have started releasing the driver as a *.zip file. The current version can be found here :
$ http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-8-x86.x86_64.zip
Create .deb packages.
You can run
./amd-driver-installer-15-12-x86.x86_64.run --listpkg to get a list of all the potential packages
For Debian systems, <package> will be one of the following: Debian/sid Debian/unstable Debian/etch Debian/stable Debian/lenny Debian/testing Debian/experimental
$ fakeroot sh amd-driver-installer-15-12-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg <package>
Install .debs.
$ sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb
Wheezy Installation (current as of June 22, 2012)
Wheezy upgraded from xserver 1.11 to 1.12 on May 20, 2012. AMD has not updated their driver to work with this version of xserver. So, you have two options:
1) Downgrade from xserver 1.12 (Tested, and works on 6/22/12 on Debian Wheezy kernel 3.2.0-1-amd64)
Link to instructions (this should be copied over to this wiki for posterity):
Notes: In the linked directions they use fglrx version 12.4. At the time of making this edit beta version 12.6 also works just fine. If you want to run the bleeding edge, it can be found here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=126.96.36.199.42&lang=English With the 12.6 beta version you will get a watermark in the lower right hand corner. After you have everything working properly run this script: http://www.areyoueye.net/scripts/watermark_nix.sh It will get rid of that water mark.
2) Patch libpciaccess (I have no first hand knowledge of this working but others swear by it)
This will get you the latest and greatest xserver and fglrx working together.
Read this: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522 Apply this patch: http://pastebin.com/swpDj4FD
Post Install
Generate a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
Unfortunately, there is no sure way to generate the ATI version of the Xorg.conf file. It is entirely dependent on your configuration. The following subsections will attempt to address possible (and tested) variations for their respective configurations.
Generic Config
This will work for most people:
$ sudo amdconfig --initial -f
If you are using dual head, that is to say, two _different_ desktops on two monitors, do this:
$ sudo amdconfig --initial=dual-head -f
Most people with two or more monitors will want instead one large desktop; to do this you may have to specify your monitors individually in the xorg.conf file and tell the driver to use a larger desktop size (big enough to contain both monitors) then use xrandr to configure the monitor arrangement.
Minimal Config
A very basic /etc/X11/xorg.conf file might be what you need if you have a new card that's not fully supported by amdconfig. Here follows the entirety of a minimal xorg.conf file for the Radeon 6870:
Section "Device" Identifier "ATI radeon 6870" Driver "fglrx" EndSection
X2/Dual GPU Cards
If you have an X2 card (e.g. 4870X2 or 5970), use... !!Do not use for two separate cards in crossfire!!
$ sudo amdconfig --initial -f --adapter=all
Dual/Multi Monitors
A post at http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18553 suggested to do the following to use a dual monitor display (also known as "Big Desktop"):
$ sudo amdconfig --initial -f $ sudo amdconfig --set-pcs-str="DDX,EnableRandR12,FALSE"
However the information is dated 2009 and now believed to be obsolete.
For multiple monitors, instead try specifying all monitors in your xorg.conf file. Use the following as a starting point:
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "amdconfig Layout" Screen 0 "amdconfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0 EndSection Section "Module" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "0-DFP6" Option "DPMS" "true" Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "0-CRT1" Option "DPMS" "true" Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "amdconfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Option "Monitor-DFP6" "0-DFP6" Option "Monitor-CRT1" "0-CRT1" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "amdconfig-Screen[0]-0" Device "amdconfig-Device[0]-0" Monitor "0-DFP6" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 # Big Desktop: 1920+1280=3200, max(1080,1024)=1080 Virtual 3200 1080 EndSubSection EndSection
After starting X successfully, use xrandr to check the maximum screen size is large enough for your combined desktop:
$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1080, maximum 3200 x 1080
And positioning of connected monitors:
DFP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DFP6 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 531mm x 299mm [modes elided] CRT1 connected 1280x1024+1920+56 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm
Use xrandr (or in KDE, krandrtray) to reposition your monitors within your screen.
Force use of the new xorg.conf (if necessary)
Some people find that changes to xorg.conf don't get used by the driver. To force the ATI driver to adopt changes made to xorg.conf, use the following command:
$ sudo amdconfig --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf --tls=1
Test your installation
NOTE: if you don't reboot first, fglrxinfo gives an error message. Reboot the computer and type
$ fglrxinfo
into the terminal. If the vendor string contains ATI, you have installed the driver successfully. Using fglrxinfo on a system with Catalyst 11-4 and a RadeonHD 4250 returns:
display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 4200 Series (This line may be different depending on what graphics card you are using.) OpenGL version string: 3.3.10665 Compatibility Profile Context (This line may be different depending on what graphics card and Catalyst version you are using.)
Now, try:
$ fgl_glxgears
If you experience issues or a hang, you may need to disable fast TLS.
$ sudo amdconfig --tls=0
Hardware Video Decode Acceleration (EXPERIMENTAL)
This is confirmed to work for newer RadeonHD GPU's (those with UVD2). If you have a RadeonHD 4000 series or newer, you have UVD2. To see the complete list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder#UVD_enabled_GPUs
Debian wheezy/7.0 and Later
$ sudo apt-get install xvba-va-driver
Updating Catalyst/fglrx
DO NOT try to install a new version over an old one. Follow the Removing the Driver section below to remove your existing driver.
Removing Catalyst/fglrx
The uninstall script in the first command will only exist if you downloaded the drivers and installed them directly (rather than building packages as this guide does). Skip the first command if it does not exist.
$ sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh $ sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* xorg-driver-fglrx
If you plan on using open-source drivers, you will need to reinstall some packages because Catalyst overwrites or diverts some key 3D libraries with proprietary versions. For more information on this issue, see this Ubuntu wiki page
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon $ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core $ sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
Catalyst 11.9 and Debian Squeeze x86_64 (October 2011)
Version 11.9 will not install on Debian Squeeze with Kernel >= 3.1. To fix and install proceed as follows. First uninstall all versions of fglrx you can find, see above. (!!)
Download the driver and extract it thusly:
$ sudo ./ati-driver-installer-11-9-x86.x86_64.run --keep
Enter the newly created directory (will be named fglrx-install.XXXXXX). Use a hexeditor to find bytes starting at A6B0 with the values e8 53 90 ff ff and replace them with 90 90 90 90 90. This replaces a faulty free-op with 5 no-ops and fixes the exception thrown by "setup.data/bin/x86_64/setup". Read up on this at http://disbauxes.upc.es/?p=2964 .
Now the kernel-build-environment for the 3.1 kernel is currently missing in the repositories. To get around that type:
$ sudo aptitude install linux-source-3.1.0-rc7 $ cd /usr/src;tar -xjf linux-source-3.1.0-rc7;ln -s linux-source-3.1.0-rc7 linux;cd linux;
You may need to append an "-amd64" (or similar) to the localversion of the source to have its version-string match the one of the running kernel. To do so open .config in the current dir with an editor and search for "LOCALVERSION", set that var to "-amd64" or similar. Configure the kernel using
$ sudo make oldconfig
and build it using
$ make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version="-myversion" kernel_image kernel_headers modules_image
You may not need to rebuild the whole kernel, installing its headers may be enough, but i wanted a fresh kernel with a few custom options. Install your kernel (or just the headers) from the .deb-files that were created by make-kpkg in the directory above.
After this return to the directory where you extracted the driver to and type:
$ sudo ./amd-installer.sh 8.892 --install --force
To load the driver type:
$ sudo modprobe fglrx
Debian Squeeze x86_64 and AMD A Series (June 2012)
First install Kernel 3.2 from squeeze-backports. Add backports to your sources.list Add this line
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free
to your sources.list (or add a new file to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/)
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
$ sudo reboot
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-radeon $ sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install fglrx-driver fglrx-control fglrx-glx fglrx-atieventsd fglrx-modules-dkms
If you are using 64-bit Debian, install the 32-bit fglrx libraries for use with 32-bit programs.
$ sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports install fglrx-glx-ia32


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Max Turgeon and Louis-Philippe Ménard: Alpinists and Ice Climbers
The alpinists and ice climbers Max Turgeon and Louis-Philippe Ménard share their secrets for success in Canada and what it's like to climb on the world stage.
The workout with the Canadian alpinists and ice climbers Max Turgeon and Louis-Philippe Ménard begins at 5:00 p.m. on a warehouse rooftop.
To the south, the skyscrapers of downtown stretch from the Saint Lawrence River to the tree-covered Mont Royal.
To the north, the imposing Olympic stadium dominates the view. Thirty minutes later, as I'm gasping for air after a nonstop session of throwing colossal medicine balls, rowing on a machine, and enduring countless squats, Ménard and Turgeon inform me that the warm-up is over. "You must be joking," I say. But, as I soon find out, North America's hottest alpine duo doesn't fool around.
Like Haston and Scott before them, or Tackle and Donini, Louis-Philippe "L.P." Ménard, 30, and Maxime Turgeon, 26, have emerged as an alpine team in which the sum is immeasurably stronger than the individual parts. While each man is a skilled climber, especially on ice, the pair's combined exploits are world-class. In the past three years the two have put up some of the hardest and most committing alpine routes in the world, such as Spice Factory on Mount Bradley and the Canadian Direct on Denali.
"They are clearly taking North American alpinism to new places," says Will Mayo, a friend and himself one of New England's premier ice climbers. "They really are cutting-edge." One significant factor sets these two young Canadians apart from the legendary duos of old—their decidedly urban lifestyle.
The largest city in the province of Quebec, Montreal is also the second-largest city in Canada and the second-largest French-speaking city in the world. Unlike Toronto or Paris, however, its inhabitants have a reputation for being more than eccentric and less than hard-working. Montreal oozes with everything opposite to the strict doctrines of Catholicism, which until recently held the entire province in a clutch. Culturally, the city seems to lie at the crossroads of Europe and North America. The high quality of the public transportation and coffee, and the tightness of jeans, give it a distinct Euro feel. Turgeon and Ménard have lived in or near the city their entire lives, and take great pleasure in introducing visitors to the hip cafés and quirky bars that are never more than a stone's throw away.
While hundreds of miles from world-class mountains, the region is endowed with an abundance of ice, including routes in downtown Montreal, and contains a tightly knit community of ice climbers. Ménard began climbing almost a decade and a half ago. The two met in 2002 at a climbing slide show Ménard was presenting at their university, the École de Technologie Supérieure, but with Turgeon at the time a neophyte they did not climb together at first. Turgeon left for a year to study abroad in France, finding plenty of time to hit the crags as well as the books.
Ménard puts it bluntly. "He was a climber when he came back!"
In the winter of 2004 they climbed their first ice route together—the third ascent of the 1,150-foot La Rue Vers L'Or (VI M7+ WI 6) in the Malbaie region of Quebec. Located 300 miles northeast of Montreal, the Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie Park is a wilderness mosaic of green mountains, steep rock walls, calm rivers and, in the winter, big ice. In the same area, Ménard and Turgeon climbed the 1,100-foot La Loutre (V M7+) and Turgeon has free-soloed the equally long La Pomme D'Or (V WI 5+). After La Rue Vers L'Or, the two realized that they worked well as a team and decided on a spring trip to Alaska. Turgeon, by this time, had made some forays into the mountains, though Ménard had not; in preparation for Alaska, Ménard ventured to Mount Katahdin in Maine.
Ménard had never been on a glacier before Alaska. "I bought this 'how-to glacier travel' book and read it furiously on the plane. I even brought it to basecamp and studied it at night."
Though neither one had ever set foot on anything resembling the Ruth Gorge, they cleaned the place up. In a three-week stint in May, the two repeated three classic routes, the 4,000-foot Escalator on Mount Johnson (Alaska Grade 3), the 3,000-foot On the Frozen Roads of Our Incertitudes (V WI 5+ M6) on London Bridge—on which they brought only three ice screws—and the 2,700-foot Ham and Eggs (V 5.8 AI 4) on the Moose's Tooth. This sustained route is a calf-burner par excellence, and many suitors wait indefinitely for better ice conditions. Turgeon and Ménard completed their ascent in six hours, at night.
They had a more ambitious goal, though—to put up a hard new route. Before the trip, Turgeon had spotted what appeared to be a new ice line on an old picture of Mount Bradley's impressive north face. Because of warm weather, the line had evaporated by the time the two arrived in the Ruth, but as the trip progressed they decided to give the face a go. They were two-thirds of the way up when a falling rock ripped out one of their packs, along with the solid piece of pro to which it was clipped, sending it 3,000 feet to the glacier below, and ending their first attempt. They later found the errant pack at the bottom of a crevasse. At the base they also found Kevin Mahoney and Jack Tackle, two of North America's most prolific alpine climbers and Alaska regulars.
Mahoney recalls, "Jack and I had just landed and were skiing around to check out conditions. As we skied by Bradley, a glance at the northeast face stopped us short. An intriguing and obvious line: runnels of ice protected by dry corner systems with a few spicy snow traverses. We were instantly tempted, and as we started to ski toward the base we noticed two pairs of ski tracks." Mahoney and Tackle waited for the two climbers above to get off the face and then introduced themselves. Tackle recalls the Canadians as "super psyched but humble." He adds, "It was like they were just out for another day of climbing."
Turgeon and Ménard returned for a second attempt at Bradley, packing three days of food and fuel and a sleeping bag to share. The opening pitches had deteriorated even further. Turgeon managed to free the headwall crux pitch, which they had previously aided, at 5.10 R M7.
Ménard, in turn, freed the other two aid pitches: "When I saw Max free the headwall pitch, it was so inspiring; it's like I wanted to pay tribute, so I really focused on freeing these two aid pitches." One, a steep chimney to a groove, he led by headlamp at 3:00 a.m. They called that the Pepper Grinder pitch. The other was the Curry Overhang, the third M7 pitch.
High on the route and utterly exhausted, the two dug in for a second bivy. "We were all wet and hypothermic on a suspended mushroom somewhere in Alaska, with no visibility and heavy snow," recalls Turgeon. After a short, nerve-wreacking rest, they climbed on.
Ménard says, "We didn't have a clue where the summit exactly was, we just pushed on and stumbled on this plateau at the top of everything." It was close to midnight and some 47 hours after their start.
Turgeon calls the plateau "total salvation."
With the 5000-foot Spice Factory (Alaska Grade 5 WI 5 M7 5.10 R), two unknowns had put up the hardest route of the season in Alaska. It was just a beginning.A year later, in the spring of 2006, Turgeon and Ménard returned to Alaska.
Because Ménard has what Turgeon calls a "real job," he was only able to take two weeks off. When he finally arrived at the Kahiltna basecamp, Turgeon already had a new route on the south face of Mount Foraker (done with Mayo) behind him.
"I had no expectations," says Ménard. "I only wanted to get some experience at high altitude before our trip to Pakistan." Unlike Bradley, which albeit large in stature is a mere 9,104 feet high, Denali rises to 20,320 feet. With this limited goal the two followed the herds up the West Buttress. Forced to sit out some weather and getting wrapped up helping rescue a climber with cerebral edema, they abandoned the West Buttress, skied into the East Fork of the Kahiltna, and camped below the giant South Face.
"When you do the West Buttress, you never see the mountain," says Ménard. "From the East Fork, it is spectacular."
They spotted a pillar between the American Direct and the Japanese Direct and decided to contribute a Canadian version.
During the first half of the route, the weather held and the rock was warm. Weather deteriorated, however, and after 58 hours of near continuous climbing covering 8,000 feet of challenging terrain, they arrived at the top of the face in a whiteout and nasty wind.
"We were barely able to put each foot in front of the other and were falling every 10 feet," recalls Turgeon. With him in front, they wandered aimlessly near the top of Denali.
"Suddenly," Turgeon goes on, "both of my feet cut loose and I flipped over. A couple of seconds later I hit something and started to tumble."
Ménard fell, too: "It was a freaky, over-the-head and over-Max, all-the-way-in-the-air fall." They stopped next to each other, insulation spilling out from the gashes in their parkas and pants. At that point the team hunkered down in their shared sleeping bag and bivy sack on the Football Field.
"There was no more question. We had to stop right there," Turgeon says.
Crammed together in the middle of a storm near the top of North America, the two battled to stay warm and regain strength. When their stove refused to cooperate, they fully realized how exposed their lightweight approach left them. They had to move to stay alive—and so they packed up and stumbled down through the whiteout.
"We zigzagged our way to try to find Denali Pass," says Ménard, "which neither of us had ever seen before."
"We found some steps and next saw a camp with 10 tents 1,000 feet below. That was our summit," Turgeon explains. From high camp the two quickly made their way down to basecamp.
Having arrived in Alaska with no ambitious plans, they had managed to outdo their previous year's accomplishment with a new route, the 8,000-foot Canadian Direct (Alaska Grade 6 M6 5.9).
The fact that they had contoured around the summit, missing it by perhaps as little as 150 feet, seemed to matter little.
Ménard says, "I had pushed it so far to that point where I thought my guardian angel might not be able to help me."
Turgeon agrees. "After we reached the ridge, our only thought was to get the fuck out of there. We were on survival instinct and right in the middle of the battlefield."The rooftop workout is totally absurd. Ménard and Turgeon have earned their endurance and power from years of hard work. For two hours we run from station to station, never recovering. A typical sequence looks like this: 30 pull-ups, 60 "burpees" (a dynamic push-up to jumping jack), eight 225-pound dead lifts; repeat three times. Almost immediately the next round commences, until every muscle is worked close to its breaking point. They learned their method of training from Mark Twight, renowned alpinist and president of Grivel North America. After their success on Mount Bradley, Twight had written Turgeon (in French) to offer him sponsorship.
The workout is never the same, but always involves numerous sets with increasing weights or reps. Much occurs past the anaerobic threshold.
"It has made a huge difference for climbing long routes with a pack," says Ménard. "I recover much faster now."
Another component of the workout is team-building. While one person lifts, jumps or pulls, the other offers encouraging words and moral support. The pull-ups, for example, are done together, with both people hanging on the bar at the same time, but pulling up one after the other, each 30 times to complete the set.
"Allez, Max, allez," Ménard yells as Turgeon struggles to finish a third set of 12 150-pound front squats. They are extremely supportive of my feeble attempts at keeping up. Eventually, Turgeon says I should be proud: "Most people throw up after the first hour.
Some weeks they run through this workout multiple times, other weeks they only get to it once. Often they do the workout with a group of other Montreal climbers, and follow with a rooftop barbeque.
Jutting out from one of the rooftop corners is a two-story extension of the building. Ménard rents the top level and has turned it into a hip studio apartment. Spare, modern Scandinavian-looking furniture graces the room at Feng Shui angles, while climbing gear is neatly stacked into containers in every corner and crevice. Everything below the apartment belongs to Titanium Era, the company he works for as a mechanical engineer.
"I don't have to commute to work or to my workout," he boasts with a smile. It's a legitimate, full-time job, which should theoretically leave Ménard with little time for long expeditions. Luckily, his boss is understanding and allows him to take off twice a year, including a two-month trip to Pakistan. Turgeon is a mechanical engineer as well, but goes on too many climbing trips to keep a steady job. Instead he holds down various seasonal jobs, most recently with a high-ropework company. When in Montreal, he bunks at his parents' place on the South Shore. With a girlfriend in Chamonix, climbing buddies in Western Canada and roots here, he rarely stays in one place long. Even with their frequent travels and the many choice climbing locations elsewhere in Canada, neither Turgeon nor Ménard has any plans to leave Montreal.
"Montreal is a great city, very multi-cultural, night life, restaurants, festivals all year long," says Ménard. They are connected to the climbing community in the province, have a large group of friends from childhood and from the École de Technologie Supérieure, and their families live here.
After a quick shower, Ménard and Turgeon take me to Barbare, one of their favorite restaurants, on the bustling Saint Denis Street. We order a round of local beer and burgers, and talk about their alpine adventures. I ask what makes them a good team.
They look at each other, embarrassed, and Ménard gets up and says, "You go first, I'm going to the bathroom."
Annoyed at getting ditched with a hard question, Turgeon thinks a while. Finally he begins, "We have the same ideology of climbing."
By now so much time has passed that Ménard is returning. He adds, "We feel tired at the same time in the mountains, we recuperate the same way, and we are attracted to the same kind of climbing." When planning trips, they frequently look at photos of faces and pick out exactly the same line to climb.
"It's amazing," says Ménard. "Max is usually the one who researches mountains and such, but when we look at pictures or stand at the bottom of a cliff we always come up with the same idea."
The two climb and train year-round for ice-climbing season. Many fall days, when the weather is perfect for rock climbing, they and friends dry tool at the overhanging cliffs of Saint Alban, near Quebec City. When the ice finally arrives, Ménard and Turgeon are completely in their element. Besides repeating and putting up some of Quebec's hardest—and frequently remotest—ice routes, they compete in the province's ice competitions. They always seem to climb at nearly the same level. In 2006, Ménard finished fourth and Turgeon fifth at Festiglace, held annually in Quebec City and drawing an international field. This past year, Turgeon finished ninth and Ménard 10th.
I ask them if they ever argue in the mountains.
"In the mountains—never," says Turgeon. "Sometimes when we spend too much time in basecamp it can get tense, but there has never been anything major. We are both good at making our own little space. We're kind of like an old couple."
Ménard says, "We actually don't talk much and that's our main problem! We also plan everything as a team a bit too much, which means we share the same tent in basecamp, same books, sometimes same music … so after a couple of weeks of being close together we just need some space. Once we're up on a route, we always get along."
A few hours and beers later, my girlfriend and her friends from Montreal join us. Ménard and Turgeon introduce themselves, and the conversation drifts from climbing to fashion, politics and the upcoming Canada Day. Mayo has jokingly characterized the duo's personalities as "good cop, bad cop." When the three women join our conversation, Ménard is charming and gregarious, telling funny stories and taking an attentive interest in theirs. Turgeon is more withdrawn, speaking only when asked a direct question and otherwise content to sip his beer in silence.
The two appear no different from many other young Montrealers. Ménard's spiked hair and stubby rat tail give him the appearance of your average punk rocker. Turgeon, bulkier, could easily be confused with any number of Quebeçois hockey fanatics. Throughout the evening, they never reveal that they are top climbers, and listen patiently when one of the women boasts of her friend's "epic" adventure trek in Nepal. Little does she know that the two guys across the table are currently preparing for an expedition to Pakistan that could make climbing history.
Turgeon and Ménard have been to Pakistan before. After their Alaska trip in 2006, they spent only a few months in Montreal before leaving again in the early fall for the Karakoram. As usual, they did not have a clearly defined goal.
"You need a starting point," says Ménard, "but when you're there, you're on your own. Conditions are always different, and if you're not open-minded, you're screwed."
"It worked just like Alaska," continues Turgeon. "One small step after another." They warmed up with two new one-day routes in the area, up to 5.10 and M7. After that, they attempted the enormous unclimbed north face of Latok I (23,441 feet) but were turned around by a bombardment of rocks and ice at around 17,400 feet, leaving their faces bloody messes.
Ménard says, "It was too warm."
"The noise was terrifying," Turgeon recalls. "We were forced to climb with our heads down."
After getting off the north face alive, they decided to have a go at the legendary, often-tried unclimbed north ridge of the peak. Enduring two days of relentless snowfall in scant bivy gear at the same high point of 17,400 feet, they had no choice but descent. Though they could have tried a hybrid-alpine style, leaving fixed rope on the lower rock section and returning when the weather improved, they didn't consider it.
"Besides," explains Ménard, only half-joking, "we have little experience jugging, so we would probably not have been that much faster."
The Benegas brothers, Willie and Damian, who shared basecamp with the Canadians, reportedly commented, "We're light—you're ultra-light!"
The north ridge refused to budge, but Turgeon and Ménard offer only positive memories of the trip. Because they paid for it largely out of their own pockets, there was no pressure from sponsors or the media. Their expedition was low-tech by today's standards: no Internet access in basecamp, no bolts in their backpacks.
"We did have a sat phone," admits Turgeon, "but we didn't really know who to call to get a weather forecast or anything." Instead they peered out of the tent door every morning.
In the end the trip was successful: They stayed true to their style and stayed alive.The day after the grueling workout, Turgeon invites me to join him and his friend Nicolae Balan—Ménard is busy with "new-girlfriend duties"—for a day of cragging at what he calls "Quebec's finest rock face." It is actually Poke-o-Moonshine, in the Adirondacks, New York. At less than two hours away from Montreal, the cliff sees many northern visitors. The U.S. border guard recognizes Balan from the previous day and casually asks him what routes he's working on today. The day I visit the crag, all greetings and climbing commands are in French. I only meet one other Anglophone all day.
Turgeon climbs sandbag 5.11s with calm and confidence. He doesn't move quite like a sport climber but his efforts look easy. When there's good gear he places it liberally, but otherwise wastes little time. He proceeds fluidly over easy sections and occasionally stops to rest and peer up at cruxes ahead. More than anything, his climbing is efficient. Onsighting Matrix, an Adirondacks (stout) 5.11d—one of the few pitches on the entire face Turgeon has never ventured onto before—he does not appear to be working particularly hard, and pulls through the awkward flaring chimney with a few grunts.
Ménard, too, has some hard rock routes to his credit. One weekend earlier, he had climbed the finishing pitches of La Cavale (the Runaway), an 800-foot trad route on the Cap Trinité in the Saguenay Fjord, northeast of Montreal, a longterm project. Having previously aided it, Ménard and Mathieu Landry spent the last few years cleaning and working the route until the crux yielded at roughly 5.13b.
"I'm in love with Cap Trinité," Ménard says. "I must have been there at least 20 times."
In August, some weeks after our meetings, Ménard and Turgeon again travel to Pakistan, to attempt the north face of K6 (23,891 feet). Early in the trip, however, Ménard suffers an ankle injury during a warm-up climb. Roped up but without any pro, the two were descending a steep and serac-threatened glacier when Ménard's foothold gave way, sending him headfirst down the slope, twisting and battering his ankle. He was able to self-arrest just before the rope pulled Turgeon off.
"When I heard him scream, it instantly felt like all the dreams of lines we were imagining together since we arrived in basecamp fell apart," Turgeon says. "But it was no time for nostalgia. We were miles from human beings and L.P. was crawling. He crawled and dived over crevasses … all night and next morning and finally got to basecamp."
For Ménard the trip was over, and he quickly made plans to return to Canada. Before setting off on the 25-mile glacier and moraine trek to Skardu, accomplished in an astonishing 12 hours on homemade crutches, Ménard had only one thing to say to Turgeon: "Climb one for me!" A few days later Turgeon soloed the first ascent of Farol East (20,833 feet).
Back in Montreal, a light snow dusting and bitterly cold winds signal winter's arrival. For the Canadian duo this is no excuse to forego the rooftop training routine. Turgeon is training for ice competitions, Ménard is trying to heal—he fractured his talus bone and tore three ligaments in Pakistan. They already have plans for their next big expedition: to Alaska, or possibly Pakistan or another country in Asia. They have a few different mountains in mind but no exact routes picked out. That can wait until they show up.
Martin Gutmann is working on his Ph.D. in history in upstate New York.


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Scheduling your examination To schedule an exam go to the Prometric website www.prometric.com/cpa. • An exam may be scheduled at any one of the Prometric sites within the examination jurisdictions. • When scheduling an exam, allow for a period of at least six full business days between the date of scheduling the exam and the date the exam is taken. • The NTS must be in hand when scheduling an exam. An examination scheduled 45 days from the date of scheduling, will be guaranteed by Prometric. 9 Prometric Testing Locations Prometric Testing Center/Sylvan Learning Center 2224 NW 50th, Suite 196 Oklahoma City, OK Prometric Testing Center/Star Training 3015 E Skelly Dr., Suite 254 Tulsa, OK Candidates can schedule to sit for the computer based test at more than 300 testing centers in the 54 jurisdictions including District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands & Guam. International Testing Centers (ITC) Bahrain, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon & United Arab Emirates. Candidates who are citizens, long-term residents of these countries & US citizens residing or traveling abroad can sit for the exam at these centers. Candidates requesting to sit at ITC will be asked to provide proof of residency to NASBA before testing. When is the Examination Offered for Testing? The CBT is offered in three month "windows". Each window will contain a two-month period in which testing is allowed and a third month in which no testing is allowed so that the exam questions may be refreshed. The testing windows are as follows: Open for Testing Closed January - February March April - MayJune July - AugustSeptember October - November December Failed or "NO SHOW" sections cannot be reapplied for or rescheduled within the same three month testing window. 10 Examination Appointment Change Plan ahead and take precautions for things that may happen unexpectedly. Be sure to schedule and allow plenty of time for traveling to the testing site. • If a change of date, time or location of an exam appointment is needed, contact Prometric to reschedule the exam. NO cancellations are allowed within 24 hours of an appointment time. Call the Prometric Candidate Service Call Center at 1-800580-9648. The center is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM. • The Board cannot reschedule an exam or refund money if a candidate fails to show for a scheduled section. The rescheduling fees will be charged by Prometric if a less than 30 day notice is given. The Board cannot issue a waiver for the rescheduling fee. If an appointment for an exam is cancelled and is not rescheduled, a refund of the fees already paid will not be given. • If a candidate does not appear for an appointment or arrives more than 30 minutes late, the candidate will be considered a "NO SHOW" and will not receive a refund. Computer Based Test (CBT) Cost Visit the Oklahoma Accountancy Board website at www.ok.gov/oab for the most current CBT fees. Extension Request To request a medical extension, submit supporting documentation from a licensed medical professional with a letter requesting an extension to the OAB. An extension requested due to military duty, requires supporting documentation be submitted to the OAB showing the term of active duty. 11 In the Case of an Emergency If an incident occurs resulting in the inability to sit for a scheduled examination on a Saturday or the following Monday: • Send a fax to Prometric at 1-800-853-6781. The fax must include the candidate's name, confirmation number, section ID and the date and time of the original scheduled test. The fax should also include appropriate documentation such as the death certificate of the family member or hospital records. If such documentation is not immediately available, please send the documentation to Prometric as soon as possible. • Upon evaluation of the fax and information provided, Prometric will contact the candidate within 48 to 72 hours with instructions regarding when to reschedule and what fee, if any, applies. If the candidate's NTS is expired, Prometric will not reschedule and will instruct the candidate to contact the Oklahoma Accountancy Board. Prometric can be reached at 1-800-580-9648. Keeping Candidate Status Remember the 18 month rule: • Credit granted for any section of the exam expires after 18 months. • A candidate must sit for one section of the exam within an 18 month period from the date of the last exam to remain an active candidate. A cancellation or "NO SHOW" does not count as sitting for the exam. • A candidate's status is determined by the Board. The PC date or the NTS expiration date will not override or extend the 18 month rule or otherwise allow the candidate to remain an active candidate with the Board. If a candidate loses active status and wishes to become active again, all current eligibility requirements will be applicable. 12 Arriving at the testing Center • Know the date and time of the scheduled test. • Arrive at the testing center at least 30 minutes early. • Bring 2 forms of acceptable ID. (See page 16) • Bring NTS for the section being tested. • A digital photo and biometric fingerprint will be captured at the test center. Admission to Testing Center The NTS and two forms of ID are required when checking in at the testing center or the candidate will not be allowed to sit. At least one identification card must show the candidate's name as shown on the NTS. (Test centers cannot receive e-mail or a faxed copy of NTS.) No unapproved items are allowed in the testing center. Possession or use of any unauthorized item in the testing room is grounds for expulsion from the entire CPA Exam, forfeiture of score and may result in other Board actions. Unauthorized items are listed on the NTS. When checking in, a key will be given to a locker for personal items (i.e. handbag, wallet, watch, cell phone) along with pre-numbered scrap paper that is to be returned at the end of testing. Problem at Testing Center In rare instances candidates have experienced computer malfunctions during testing. Any problem should be reported to the testing center staff, and NASBA's Candidate Care Unit at [email protected]. Completing the Examination • After completing the exam return all pre-numbered scrap paper to the testing center staff. • Retrieve all personal items from the assigned locker; return the key to testing center staff and sign out. 13 Review/Appeal a Failed Examination Information for the review or appeal of an examination score can be obtained on the OAB website at www. ok.gov/oab. Click on the exam applicant, more, print pdf forms and then select the appropriate form. How to Re-apply for a Failed Section Re-apply for a failed section of the examination by using the OAB's on-line services or download the Candidate for Examination application from the OAB website. Address/Name Change Change in address, employment or name change must be submitted within 30 days. Name change can only be completed by the OAB staff upon receiving an official name change document. The official document will be returned upon written request. Exam Score Scores on all sections are not released at the same time or in the same order in which the sections are taken. All scores will be released by the AICPA to NASBA and then to the OAB in various stages. • Unofficial score can be viewed on the OAB website using the Board issued Pin and Password. • Official score notices will be mailed once certified by the Board. 14 U p o n Pas s ing all Sectio ns of th e E x ami nation, What's Ne xt? Upon receipt of the official score notification: • Submit the completed experience declaration form to verify at least 1800 hours of work experience. The experience must have been earned within 4 years of signing and dating the experience form. Accounting experience can be in Public Accounting, Government, Industry or Academia. • All individuals applying for certification or licensure must provide evidence of successful completion of the AICPA ethics examination or its equivalent as determined by the OAB. • OAB policy is that a minimum score of 90% on the AICPA ethics examination is required for successful completion. • An equivalent ethics course must be a minimum of 8 hours in length. • Once a candidate's experience has been verified and approved by the Board, an application for certification will be sent. • The application for certification and ethics exam results must be returned with the appropriate fee. Upon receipt by the Board, the successful candidate's name will be put on the next scheduled Board meeting agenda for approval. • Notification of approval will be sent after the Board renders a decision. 15 H elpful Ti ps an d Rem i n d ers • The Payment Coupon is valid for 90 days from the date of issuance. • Notice to Schedule is valid for 180 days from the date of issuance. • Schedule examination dates and time slots on the Prometric website, www.prometric.com/cpa, after the NTS has been received. • The NTS and two forms of ID are required when checking in at the the test center or the candidate will not allowed to sit. (The test centers cannot receive e-mail or a faxed copy of the NTS). • The name on the NTS must be exactly the same as shown on the primary ID. Any discrepancies must be resolved immediately. • Primary form of ID: Valid driver's license, valid passport issued by U.S., valid state ID card, valid U.S. military ID. • Secondary form of ID: Additional government issued ID card, valid credit card, bank ATM card, bank debit card. • Unacceptable ID: Draft card, social security card, student ID card or permanent residency card. • NASBA requires a 24 hour notification to send a copy of the NTS by e-mail. If the NTS is requested to be received by mail or fax, there will be a longer waiting period. • Contact Prometric to reschedule a section of the exam. 16 E li g i b i l i t y C h e c k l ist On the OAB website there is a full version of the checklist with a transcript worksheet if needed. ☐☐ Baccalaureate degree is posted on official transcript. ☐☐ Completion of a minimum of 150 semester hours of college education. ☐☐ Completion of 76 semester hours of upper-division level course credit. ☐☐ Completion of a minimum of 30 semester hours of accounting that is above principles of accounting or introductory accounting. ☐☐ Completion of at least one course in Auditing or Assurance. ☐☐ Completion of a minimum of 9 semester hours from any or all of the subjects of economics, statistics, business law, finance, business management, marketing, business communication, risk management, insurance, management information systems or computer science at the upper-division level. ☐☐ Currently a resident of the State of Oklahoma. ☐☐ Completion of the Application for Qualification. (Please do not leave any questions unanswered.) ☐☐ An official transcript for each college attended is required. ☐☐ A current 2 X 2 passport type photograph is required. ☐☐ Application fee of $50 included. ☐☐ Completion of the Affidavit for Lawful Presence in the United States which is signed and notarized. 17 Notes 18 This handbook is an authorized publication of the Oklahoma Accountancy Board designed for general distribution among its candidates and interested parties. Copies have been printed at no cost to the public. Twenty-five copies have been deposited with the Publications Clearinghouse of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. 201 N.W. 63rd St., Suite 210 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73116 405.521.2397 Fax 405.521.3118 www.ok.gov/oab Oklahoma Accountancy Board
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Pearl Harbor survivor helps identify dead
HONOLULU — Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater.
And so he set out to restore names to the dead.
Emory, a survivor of the attack, doggedly scoured decades-old documents to piece together who was who. He pushed, and sometimes badgered, the government into relabeling more than 300 gravestones with the ship names of the deceased. And he lobbied for forensic scientists to exhume the skeletons of those who might be identified.
On Friday, the 71-year anniversary of the Japanese attack, the Navy and National Park Service will honor the 91-year-old former sailor for his determination to have Pearl Harbor remembered, and remembered accurately.
"Some of the time, we suffered criticism from Ray and sometimes it was personally directed at me. And I think it was all for the better," said National Park Service historian Daniel Martinez. "It made us rethink things. It wasn't viewed by me as personal, but a reminder of how you need to sharpen your pencil when you recall these events and the people and what's important."
Emory first learned of the unknown graves more than 20 years ago when he visited the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific shortly before the 50th anniversary of the attack. The grounds foreman told him the Pearl Harbor dead were scattered around the veterans' graveyard in a volcanic crater called Punchbowl after its resemblance to the serving dish.
Emory got a clipboard and walked along row after row of flat granite markers, making notes of any listing death around Dec. 7, 1941. He got ahold of the Navy's burial records from archives in Washington and determined which ships the dead in each grave were from.
He wrote the government asking why the markers didn't note ship names and asked them to change it.
"They politely told me to go you-know-where," Emory told The Associated Press in an interview at his Honolulu home, where he keeps a "war room" packed with documents, charts and maps. Military and veterans policy called for changing grave markers only if remains are identified, an inscription is mistaken or a marker is damaged.
Emory appealed to the late Patsy Mink, a Hawaii congresswoman who inserted a provision in an appropriations bill requiring Veterans Affairs to include "USS Arizona" on gravestones of unknowns from that battleship.
Today, unknowns from other vessels like the USS Oklahoma and USS West Virginia, also have new markers.
Some of the dead, like those turned to ash, will likely never be identified. But Emory knew some could be.
The Navy's 1941 burial records noted one body, burned and floating in the harbor, was found wearing shorts with the name "Livingston." Only two men named Livingston were assigned to Pearl Harbor at the time, and one of the two was accounted for. Emory suspected the body was the other Livingston.
Government forensic scientists exhumed him. Dental records, a skeletal analysis and circumstantial evidence confirmed Emory's suspicions. The remains belonged to Alfred Livingston, a 23-year-old fireman first class assigned to the USS Oklahoma.
Livingston's nephew, Ken Livingston, said his uncle and his father were raised together by their grandmother and attended the same one-room schoolhouse. They grew up working on farms in and around Worthington, Ind. Livingston remembers his dad saying the brothers took turns wearing a pair of shoes they shared.
When the family learned Alfred was found, they brought him home from Hawaii to be buried in the same cemetery where his grandmother and mother rest.
About a third of the town showed up for his 2007 memorial service in Worthington, a town of just 1,400 about 80 miles southwest of Indianapolis. The local American Legion put up a sign welcoming home "Worthington's missing son."
"It brought a lot of closure," said Ken Livingston, 62, his voice cracking.
John Lewis, a retired Navy captain who worked with Emory while assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command between 2001 and 2004, said the command is fortunate someone like Emory has the time and initiative to painstakingly connect the dots on the unknowns.
"Without Ray Emory I don't know if this ever would have been done," Lewis said from Flowood, Miss.
Emory says people sometimes ask him why he's spending so much time on events from 70 years ago. He tells them to talk to the relatives to see if they want the unknowns identified.
He doesn't get emotional about the work, except when the government doesn't exhume people he thinks should be dug up and identified.
"I get more emotional when they don't do something," he said.
He'll keep working after he's formally recognized during the Pearl Harbor ceremony on Friday to remember and honor the dead. He has names of 100 more men buried at Punchbowl he believes are identifiable.


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by John Hawkins | October 11, 2012 4:32 am
Ever heard those "I had to walk five miles to school in the snow, uphill, both ways" stories from your parents? I have, too. Of course, my father's stories were real. He grew up poor. Very poor. I'm talking soda and peanut butter were considered luxuries poor. Like wearing clothes with holes in them that two of his brothers had already grown out of poor. Like putting feathers in a corncob and tossing it in the air so he had something to play with because his parents couldn't afford to buy him any toys poor.
Happily, since he was born in America, being born poor didn't mean that he had to stay poor. He started at the bottom with a company (manually punching holes in carpet), moved on from there to become one of his company's best salesmen, and actually made it to vice president of the rug division near the end of his career. In addition, he served in the military, had four kids, and played his way into the North Carolina Softball Hall Of Fame.
Happily, because of my father's work ethic and determination that his kids were going to have it better than him, I didn't have to grow up with the kind of grinding poverty that he did. Yet and still, I remember a conversation he had with me when I was young and he was still working his way up the ladder. He told me that at his income level, I qualified for the free lunch program at school. He asked what I thought about that. My response was, "I'd rather just not eat lunch." Even then, I could tell he was pleased with that answer and we never applied for any kind of free goodies at school. As I got older my father started climbing the corporate ladder and money ceased to be a big problem, although he remained very frugal.
Then, as I flew the nest and went out on my own, I got to experience my own struggles with money. I rolled pennies for grocery money and went whole weeks on nothing but baked potatoes along with 3-for-a-dollar burritos and pot pies. I drove around in a car with bad brakes that would overheat if I didn't drive fast enough to cool the engine because I couldn't afford to repair it. I once had to borrow gas money to take a date out to dinner at a cheap restaurant. I had checks bounce because I had no float money and was regularly dipping below the $5 line to pay bills. I took day laborer positions at temp agencies and had to do things like lay sod to make ends meet. When I was out of town, I once slept in an elevator all night because I was too proud to crash with friends without paying. At one point, I kid you not, I seriously considered living in my car for a couple of months to save up some money.
So I do know what it's like to be poor, and while I can't recommend the experience, I can tell you that it is not all bad. There are actually some benefits to it. For example…
When you run your own business you have to make big decisions that can make or break you, cash flow can pick up and slow down, and sometimes you have to make choices today that will reverberate for years to come. In other words, it requires a high level of risk tolerance. Even if you don't run your own business, you have to worry: about getting fired[1]: or getting hit with big bills that put you in a really tight spot.
Well, the nice thing about having been so poor that you've had to sleep in your car multiple times (yes, really) is that you already KNOW that if worse comes to worse financially, you can handle it. That means when the storm blows in, the lightning flashes, and the tide gets high, you KNOW that you can swim even if you get swept off the boat because you have done it before.
To this day, I still remember walking through a furniture store in Myrtle Beach, looking at a huge, carved, exotic looking stone bench that cost $2000 and thinking, "I could BUY THAT if I wanted." Did I buy it? No. Should I have bought it? No. But just knowing that I had the option to be able to buy it felt really good. A small, simple thing like that gave me a feeling of accomplishment and security. My brother has told me he had the exact same feeling about being able to buy a set of tires for his car without having to pay them off over a few months' time.
Could it be any other way? After all, how can you really appreciate being full if you've never been hungry? How can you ever appreciate being happy if you've never been sad? How can you ever appreciate having money in your wallet if you've never been down to lint in your pocket?
Most politicians are silver spoon babies who grew up in privileged families, went to elite schools, and decided to go into politics as opposed to taking a cushy job that they would have been offered because of their connections, not their abilities. And the ones who aren't like that? They want to make sure you know all about their humble upbringing. Why? Because rising up out of poverty is considered an accomplishment you can take pride in. Sure, maybe you don't look at it that way when you're wearing dirty clothes because you don't even have enough quarters to visit the laundry yet, but trust me, when you're doing well, those are exactly the sort of stories you'll want everybody to know about you.
My neighborhood was so dangerous….
We were so poor that…
I didn't even have the money to….
Once you've made it, those will become some of the proudest chapters in the book that is you one day because success is much sweeter when nobody hands it to you on a silver platter.
Ever changed a fan belt? My brother once helped me change one from the owner's manual because we couldn't afford to take it to a garage. My mother learned to do everything from laying tile to caulking a shower because she needed it done and early on she couldn't afford to hire anyone to do it. Despite the fact that I'm not the least bit mechanically inclined, I can paint, put together office furniture, and fix a broken toilet because I had to learn it. It's like they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" – and when you're poor, there is no shortage of necessity.
When I was growing up, my father used to toss nickels around like manhole covers. He was all about saving every dime he could. If you had grown up in a household where you were once whipped with a switch for eating too much of an "expensive" treat like peanut butter, you'd be that way, too. Of course, there are people who go in the other direction and go into debt to buy the big flat screen TV and the new car they think they "deserve." However, those are the people who tend to stay poor because they've never learned that if you can't afford it, you don't deserve it. On the other hand, if you learn that lesson not only will you end up with cash in your wallet, you'll probably never have to struggle with poverty again.
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